Jayne Cohen

Jayne Cohen is the author of a previous book on Jewish cooking and celebrations, The Gefilte Variations and co-author of The Ultimate Bar/Bat Mitzvah Celebration Book. She writes frequently about food for publications such as Bon Appétit, Gourmet, Food & Wine, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe and Jewish Women International.
Movable Feasts
For many of us, nothing makes us feel more Jewish than some chopped liver or gefilte fish? Yet, Jamie Oliver would not approve of the shtetl’s diet. Jayne Cohen confronted this dilemma and came up with interesting suggestions about how to adapt traditional recipes to suit modern notions of healthy eating, without betraying our forefathers – or mothers. In her memoir, The Settler’s Cookbook (Tales of Love, Migration and Food) Yasmin Alibhai Brown explores her East African Indian roots th...